Should We Appease MAGA by Rewriting the Constitution?
Do you think this will change American lives for the better? If so, how?
Rewriting the U.S. Constitution will take some work, as I’m sure you’re aware.
California’s Next Governor?
What does the most affluent state in America need in its next governor? Probably not a Trump supporter.
Yes, we have traffic, which we hate. And the price of real estate is high. But that’s because everybody and his dog wants to be here for our economic opportunities and natural beauty.
In general, we reject racism, ignorance, corruption, and environmental destruction–and that’s why this guy, if he hopes for a political career, needs to run for election in Oklahoma or West Virgina, where people are poor and will believe essentially anything.
Understanding Social Democracy
I can’t swear that the content of the meme here is accurate; in fact, most affluent Scandinavians I run across admit that they pay higher taxes than Americans.
They claim that the attraction is that they aren’t forced to live among uneducated slobs where people are dying of treatable diseases with masses of impoverished people living on the streets.
Isn’t there something to be said for that?
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How and When Did We Become a Country of Assholes?
When I was a boy, growing up in the 1960s, the United States was certainly not a nation of assholes. We valued personal liberty, which meant the freedom to say and think and do anything we wanted, and to do anything we wanted as long as we weren’t hurting anyone. This is what it meant to be an American.
Our allies also valued that freedom, and our enemies were the dictatorships that demanded mindless conformity to arbitrary positions held by the autocrat.
All this has gone totally out the window.
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How a Convicted Felon Becomes President
It’s easy.
Run for president in a country in which a plurality of voters care less about the honesty and law than they do about punishing everyone but white straight Christian males.
More Renewable Energy Fraud
Here are people who want $200 from you. They say:
For years, people accepted that small wind turbines did not work.
Too loud. Too fragile. Too unreliable.
The problem was never the wind.
It was the Design.
We stopped trying to fight nature and started working with it.
That is why our turbine survives storms and fits everyday homes.
Invest from $200 and help bring energy independence to more homes.
Three-bladed wind turbines capture ~90% of the theoretically available kinetic energy in wind, and there are numerous reasons based in physics and economics as to why small wind failed about 15 years ago.
Scam.
Cynicism Incarnate
To the point being made at left, I’m a progressive, but I honestly couldn’t care less if white people of the American south want to wallow in incest, disease, poverty, and ignorance.
On the other hand, I am concerned about the plight of hungry children, homeless veterans, the collapse of the environment, the destruction of the educational system, and the criminal psychosis of the U.S. president.
The Coming Apocalypse
I had a friend who co-coached my son’s all-star soccer team with me 20+ years ago who told me, when I told him that I was an environmentalist, “Oh no, Craig, we must hasten to destroy the Earth, so as to welcome the return of Jesus Christ,” by which, of course, he meant the rapture, the apocalypse as discussed at length in Revelation.
I have heard some twisted s*** in my time, but this stands at or near the top.
Religion and Science
Plenty of people say that religion and science are mutually compatible.
Some believe that life couldn’t have come from non-life.
Of course, there are other, perhaps less thoughtful believers, who say that God and His son Jesus Christ are the only path to heaven, because the Bible tells us so.
Most scientists, like neuroscientist and public intellectual Sam Harris says that religion is to the human mind what a virus is to a computer.
Gutting America’s Healthcare in Rural (MAGA) Areas
Here’s a short video that addresses the assault that the U.S. federal government is conducting on the health of people in red states and counties.
Of course, this is another fine example of what Lyndon Johnson said: “If you can convince the lowest white man that he’s better than the finest black man, he’ll open up his wallet to you.”
In this case, uneducated white people don’t care about their own ignorance or poverty or disease, as long as their president is vigorously punishing non-whites.
